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Anti-riot police fired canisters of colored tear gas to disperse supporters of opposition leader Kizza Besigye in Kampala, Uganda, as President Yoweri Museveni was being sworn in for a fourth term. James Akena/Reuters

Dahiam, 3, sleeps outdoors following a rare earthquake that rocked the town in of Lorca in southeastern Spain. Hundreds of people queued for food from emergency workers. They were prevented from returning to homes damaged by the unusually strong 5.3 magnitude quake that killed eight people. Jon Nazca/Reuters

Actress Diane Kruger walks the red carpet before the screening of the film 'Sleeping Beauty,' at the 64th Cannes Film Festival in France. Twenty films are competing in the May 11 to 22 cinema showcase. Eric Gaillard/Reuters

Melody Rokhsarzadeh, a three-year-old from Iran, holds a flag after a US citizenship naturalization ceremony with more than 300 children in Los Angeles. Nick Ut/AP

Iranian-Kurdish schoolgirls perform a traditional Kurdish dance during a picnic at the Akkashe green area in Kordistan province, Iran. Morteza Nikoubazl /Reuters

People walk along a new street surrounded by residential buildings under construction in Ordo in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The area is filled with thousands of residential apartments and duplex-style homes, built mainly to house workers for the nearby coal mines. However, the estimated one million people who were expected to move into the district's now-decaying buildings have yet to arrive. David Gray/Reuters

The Cockpit Voice Recorder, one of two flight recorders from the Rio-Paris Air France flight which crashed in 2009, is displayed for the media in Paris. French air-crash investigators said it will take at least three days to extract information from the flight recorders that were recovered from the depths of the Atlantic nearly two weeks ago. Charles Platiau/Reuters

In this aerial photo provided by the Sarangani Information Office, the Panamanian-registered ship MV Double Prosperity remains stuck at Bakud Reef after running aground Sunday more than 2 miles off the coast of the Philippines. Officials say the ship, loaded with coal, has destroyed a large portion of a marine sanctuary in Sarangani Bay. Cocoy Sexcion/AP

A child wears a scarf during a sandstorm in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, China. China Daily/Reuters

Lolo, a black jaguar, plays with Ward, her 14-month-old spotted cub, inside their enclosure at the zoo in Amman, Jordan. Ali Jarekji/Reuters

Palestinian school girls paint a scene depicting the Nakba, or 'Catastrophe,' the term used to mark the events leading to Israel's founding in 1948, during an activity in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were uprooted in the 1948 war that led to Israel's creation. Majdi Mohammed/AP

A woman photographs crosses placed at Copacabana beach by residents of the nearby town of Teresopolis to protest the lack of governmental aid after landslides earlier this year in Rio de Janeiro. On January 11 and 12, torrential rains and mudslides killed nearly 1,000 people in the mountainous area of Rio. Felipe Dana/AP

The crew of space shuttle Endeavour, from left, commander Mark Kelly, US astronaut Greg Chamitoff, mission specialist Drew Feustel, European Space Agency astronaut Roberto Vittori of Italy, mission specialist Mike Fincke and US astronaut and pilot Greg Johnson wave to the media after their arrival at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Shuttle Endeavour is due to blast off Monday morning, May 16, 2011, for NASA's next-to-last space shuttle flight. John Raoux/AP

Dawn Harper, (l.), of the US competes with her compatriot LoLo Jones on her way to winning the women's 100-meter hurdles at the Daegu Pre-Championships Meeting in Daegu, South Korea. Jones finished third. Lee Jin-man/AP

Indian army tanks participate in an Indian army and air force joint exercise in the desert near Suratgarh, India. The month-long Vijayee Bhava, or 'blessed to win,' exercise will end on May 14. Indian air force/AP

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men harvest wheat in a field near the Jewish settlement of Mevo Horon, in the West Bank. The harvested wheat will later be used to make the traditional unleavened bread eaten during the Jewish holiday of Passover. Baz Ratner/Reuters

A dog retrieves a sandal from the sea during the women's Billabong Rio Pro surfing championship in Rio de Janeiro. Victor R. Caivano/AP